Written by Gael Masengi
Award winning veteran journalist, Issa
Sikiti has promised to seize the court of law against the editor of SME whom he
accuses of allegedly owing him a large amount of money.
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| Issa Sikiti Da Silva |
The Congolese born Issa Sikiti Da Silva is
a renowned senior freelance journalist whose work had appeared on a variety of
magazines, news websites and newspapers in South Africa and across the African
continent both in French and English languages. On Tuesday, the unsatisfied
journalist took on Twitter to show his frustration as he “twitpic’d” a picture
of Colin Makala to his more than two-hundred followers, the photo was accompanied
with words that read “Portrait of Colin Makala, the evil man who owes me 35000
Rand (about US$ 4 300) in unpaid wages, He&His company SME South
Africa r doomed!” (sic).
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| Colin Makala |
Issa Sikiti claims to have published 12
stories on Mr Makala’s website (www.smesouthafrica.co.za) since January this
year and the company is refusing to pay him, he again announced on the micro
blogging website, Twitter that He and Mr Makala will soon meet in court. Gael On
Media contacted Colin Makala via E-mail for comments regarding serious
accusations which can damage the reputation of the website which he is the
editor, luckily Mr Makala replied, he acknowledged the situation and advised Mr
Sikiti “As a senior journalist that he is, he must know better how to handle matters
such as these” he wrote. However, he also warned Mr Sikiti to review their
string of communication before he looks ‘stupid’ should
he go for litigation.
Last year Issa Sikiti Da Silva was in
centre of a controversy of which an article he wrote on Bizcommunity.com,
concerning South Africa’s biggest daily tabloid Daily Sun and its former
editor-in-chief Themba Khumalo, was proven to have contained factual errors which
were derogatory and defamatory of the tabloid and its editor-in-chief.
Bizcommunity retracted the story and subsequently apologised, the news website
suspended the 6 years on-demand service of Da Silva causing the long-time
contributor to “resign”.
Da Silva later tweeted indicating that
Daily Sun lawyers threatened legal action in response to the article therefore he
resigned.
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